They purchased a 25-unit building worth about $4 million through a short sale for $1.7 million.

In his words, this is away around the due on sale clause that you can run into in a sub - to transaction.My question - if the seller puts the property in a trust, will this avoid the potential of a due on sale clause?

What about having to break even, or even feed the property every month $200 for those same 36 months, but at sale, could net a $75K-$100K profit?

It also expands your opportunities, as there just isn't a lot of small MF for sale in these areas. 

A lot of your returns come at the time of sale. 

But you have to purchase new investment property of at least as much as your net sale to avoid tax. 

I’m going to disagree with @Chris Seveney and say whether an assignee could force a sale directly would be a state law issue and heavily dependent upon the contract terms. 

Many brokers are open to part-time agents, especially those focusing on investing rather than traditional sales.

However, electing partnership or corporate taxation could be seen as a sale, causing unintended tax consequences.

My $10,000 went to the EM for the sale.